Senior Platform Engineer

Limassol / Greece / Remote / Nicosia

As our Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations

• Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation

• Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability

• Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved

• Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries

• Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise

• Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry

• Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments

• Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop

• Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK

• Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case

• Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager

Main requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline

• 7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking

• Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience

• Solid Linux administration skills

• Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management

• Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines

• Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Familiarity with database concepts

• Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)

• Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting

• Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.)

The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You

• Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge

• Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition

• Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team

• Final Connection – Final Interview